Celestial calendar

MARS

Visibility of Mars in 1999:

Satellites of Mars: Orbital, physical and photometric data.

Mars rises around midnight at the beginning of the year, in Virgo (passing 4^oN of Spica on January 8), moving into Libra in mid-February and into Virgo again after mid-April. It is at opposition on April 24 when it is visible throughout the night. Its eastward elongation gradually decreases, moving into Libra in late July, Scorpius in early September and Ophiucus in mid-September (passing 3^oN of Antares on September 17). It then continues into Sagittarius after mid-October and into Capricornus from late November.

Date	Apparent Right Ascension	Apparent Declination	Magnitude	Date	Apparent Right Ascension	Apparent Declination	Magnitude
Jan.1	13^h 10.7^m	-05^o 27'	1.0^m	Jule12	13^h 59.2^m	-13^o 32'	-0.3^m
Jan.17	13^h 39.1^m	-08^o 09'	0.8^m	Jule28	14^h 26.0^m	-16^o 04'	-0.1^m
Feb.2	14^h 04.4^m	-10^o 24'	0.5^m	Aug.13	14^h 58.9^m	-18^o 43'	0.1^m
Feb.18	14^h 24.8^m	-12^o 05'	0.1^m	Aug.29	15^h 37.2^m	-21^o 13'	0.3^m
Mar.6	14^h 38.2^m	-13^o 08'	-0.3^m	Sep.14	16^h 20.1^m	-23^o 18'	0.4^m
Mar.22	14^h 41.4^m	-13^o 27'	-0.8^m	Sep.30	17^h 06.9^m	-24^o 42'	0.5^m
Apr.7	14^h 32.1^m	-12^o 58'	-1.2^m	Oct.16	17^h 56.6^m	-25^o 12'	0.6^m
Apr.23	14^h 11.8^m	-11^o 46'	-1.6^m	Nov.1	18^h 48.1^m	-24^o 40'	0.7^m
May9	13^h 48.7^m	-10^o 25'	-1.5^m	Nov.17	19^h 40.1^m	-23^o 02'	0.8^m
May25	13^h 33.3^m	-09^o 41'	-1.2^m	Dec.3	20^h 31.4^m	-20^o 21'	0.9^m
June10	13^h 30.6^m	-10^o 03'	-0.9^m	Dec.19	21^h 21.3^m	-16^o 46'	0.9^m
June26	13^h 40.0^m	-11^o 26'	-0.6^m	Dec.27	21^h 45.6^m	-14^o 42'	1.0^m

Visible way of Mars in 1999 (from January to October):

Visible way of Mars in 1999 (from November to December):

Note: All the times in this page are expressed in universal time (UT).
For Kyiv Local_Time=UT+2^h (and Local_Time=UT+3^h for summer time).